The orchestra of the Summer Ballet Seasons was created in 2002 specially to contribute the work of the project. For these years the orchestra, following the best music traditions, has formed its own style to perform ballet music which is well known among theatre audience and music lovers. Not only experienced musicians – representatives of main schools of mastery in Moscow – are working in the orchestra, there are also young performers, which were graduated from Moscow P.I. Tchaikovsky Conservatory and Gnesin Russian Academy of Music.

The orchestra of the Summer Ballet Seasons has repeatedly participated in tours of Russian ballet companies in USA, China, France, Germany. It was noted in foreign press that “orchestra is not only an accompaniment, but the full member of performance”.

Pavel Ovsiannikov

Pavel Ovsiannikov was born in 1951.

In 1977 has graduated from Moscow State Conservatory named after P.I. Tchaikovsky (class of K. Hachaturyan). Since 1978 and till 2004 – conductor, then the artistic director and the chief conductor of the President orchestra of the Russian Federation.

A huge amount of records with the best soloists of classic and popular music were released. With great success President Orchestra, with P. Ovsiannikov as a conductor, performed on tours in USA, Great Britain, Germany, France, Italy, Israel, Greece and other countries. Pavel Ovsiannikov performed in the most prestigious concert halls and theatres of our country and abroad.

He cooperates with many famous ballet troupes and his repertoire includes as much as 20 ballets. He worked at the ballet performances with the outstanding personalities of a ballet art like Yu.Grigorovich, E.Maksimova and V. Vassiliev, A.Petrov, N.Kasatkina and V.Vasilyov.

Pavel Ovsiannikov is a member of the Union of composers of Russia. He is the author of the ballet «Tom Sawyer» which has been staged first at the State Kremlin Palace (1998). Presentation of his other ballet «Katya and the Prince of Siame» (2003) took place in the capital of Thailand – Bangkok.

Since 2005 and till now Pavel Ovsiannikov is the artistic director and the chief conductor of the Russian symphony orchestra «The Orchestra of the XXI Century». He tours extensively and successfully in Russia and all over the world.